Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] over the " in BNC.

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1 Many older women probably avoid relationships for similar reasons but , once they get over the inhibitions , it can be very reassuring to know that you are accepted , varicose veins , belly and all .
2 If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it .
3 If you open you 've got gangs of young lads patrolling the town , even with whips and if they get over the door you 've had it .
4 Which may not rank the outsiders in the eyes of the Ladbrokes odds-maker , but if they look over the fence they will certainly be able to see the outsiders from where they have been placed .
5 But they gloss over the ambiguities in the concept of the subject which underlie these difficulties .
6 Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper ?
7 The sudden roar as they sweep over the horizon is part of life in this otherwise quiet stretch of countryside-often alarming enough to send children into bursts of frightened tears .
8 The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls .
9 This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space .
10 These worms have large buccal capsules and feed by ingestion of plugs of mucosa as they move over the surface of the intestine .
11 Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom .
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